course

Manage Jira software project roles and permissions


duration

35 minutes

role

Jira Project Admin

level

Intermediate

product

Jira

Add security and control

Control what users see and do in Jira projects. You’ll explore software project roles and learn how to assign roles according to how your team works. Then, you’ll learn how to grant permissions to users in team-managed projects.
After this course, you’ll be able to:
  • Differentiate global and project permissions and describe their functions.
  • Explain what tasks viewers, members, and project admins can perform.
  • Assign project roles to match how your team works.
  • Add users to your software project.
  • Control access to a project.
  • Configure work item restrictions for software and business projects.
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4 Lessons in this course

10 minutes
What are permissions in Jira?

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to: - Differentiate global and project permissions - List the common global and project permissions - Describe the function of each global and project permission - Describe access permission types and security


Sections
  • Control what users see and do with permissions
  • Compare global and project permissions
  • Explore company-managed project permissions
5 minutes
Explore roles for a software project

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to: - Explain what tasks viewers, members, and project admins can perform


Sections
  • How can you access a software project?
  • Let’s look at an example
15 minutes
Add users to a software project

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to: - Assign project roles to match how your team works - Add users to your software project


Sections
  • Add users to project roles
  • Create a new project role
5 minutes
Configure permissions for team-managed projects

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Define team-managed project permissions - Control access to a project - Configure work item restrictions for software and business projects


Sections
  • Grant permissions to users in team-managed projects
  • Configure internal project access
  • Control access to work items with work restrictions